you said a mouthful there brother!As you will find, the opportunities for making items to utilize in the shop are endless. I recently made an adapter to go from my biscuit joiner (which makes a huge amount of dust) directly to my Craftsman shop vac hose. Before, I had a cobbled up mess of some copper tube and hose clamps. Also made some adapters for my Rikon disc/belt sander to go from their goofy size dust ports to pvc pipe and back to my shop vac.
So much fun!!!
I am also going to be printing a complete drill index with fractions, numbered and lettered drill sizes to fit in my custom drill bit cabinet that I built.
Man, that thumb came out amazingly realistic!i had a chance to see a 3d printer, a little too close.
it captured my imagination, but thrust the spear of doubt upon my thoughts.
how can i 3d print something???
i have experience with motor controls and plc industrial thingy's- but i have no experience in g-code or co-ordinate multi-axis control.
that is where the doubt came in, how can i print something if i don't know the first thing about it???
i binge watched youtube on the ender 3, the brand i was going to run with.
i din't buy the pro , as recommended.
not for cost reasons alone, from what i understand you end up customizing just about everything anyway-
i'll spend the money on the better gear as i go
here is how it came
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here is a picture of the first print i ever made!
41 minutes!
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i plugged the thumb drive into my tower computer.
the creality 1.2.3 was loaded onto my computer
i loaded the stock rendering from the object file
and scaled it through the slicer
i saved the gcode to the sd card and went through the first warm up sequence and leveled the bed.
after the extruder came to temperature and the bed came to temperature,
i loaded the sliced gcode file with a twist and push of a knob.
the printer and software is incredibly easy to use and i feel like i missed out on a lot of stuff earlier,
due to my own ignorance .
i have a ton to learn, but i'm sure i'll get a whole bunch of use from this amazing tool!
thanks for reading!
I have no basis to argue your points 7miles, but I see plenty of videos on YT of people finished products with that half watt laser. I do want to do my motorcycle seat so leather is kind of a must. Things like glass/metal do take crazy amounts of power, but those handheld ones that pop ballons and light matches are PROBABLY super low power? Maybe the wavelength as well plays into this?
LOL, that's funny!Man, that thumb came out amazingly realistic!
My wife wants one so I have been researching. I feel like a dual nozzle would be advantageous, she would like it to also laser engrave, but not a deal killer. I assume you did your homework and I respect your input. Any good reason you went with that one, were there others in the race.?I am really leaning towards Bibo3 I think it is. Pretty pricey...I think $700 but I'd be willing to do that for her since her luck has been so crap the last 8 months....